We are happy to announce that an author from Sisters in Crime Speakers Bureau will be giving a presentation at our June meeting. Join us June 1, 2019 at the Lewiston Public Library as author Laura DiSilverio delivers a presentation entitled, "No Pain, No Gain: Increasing Conflict in Your Novel".

A retired Air Force intelligence officer, Laura DiSilverio is the national bestselling and award-winning author of 21 mystery, suspense and young adult sci-fi novels. She has written four cozy series for various Penguin imprints, and the Swift Investigations books, a humorous private investigator series, for St. Martin's Minotaur. Library Journal named Close Call one of the Top Five mysteries of 2016, and The Reckoning Stones won the Colorado Book Award for Mystery in 2016. Incubation, the first book of her self-pubbed young adult dystopian trilogy, is an Amazon bestseller that was published in France (and other French speaking countries) by City Editions. A Past President of Sisters in Crime, she taught for Mystery Writers of America's Mystery University, and teaches writing at Writer's Digest conferences and in other venues.